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TABLE Filed April 2, 192'? 2 sheets-sheet 1 May 21, 1929 1 H. RowLEY 1,714,244

TABLE Filed April 2, 1927 2 sheets-sheet l"2 Patented May 2l, 1929.

UNITED STATI-:s

.PATENT-OFFICE.

HARRY ROWLEY, F TWO RIVER-S, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAMILTON MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF TWO RIVERSl WISCONSIN, A. CORPORATION OF WIS- CONSIN.

Application filed April 2,

My invention relates to an improvement in tables, preferably in the form of trucks, the structure of my invention being particularly useful forreceiving type forms from a table or support, and transferring them to a table or support, the object being to provide a truck with a supporting surfacev for the type forms, mounted on adjustable devices, whereby the said supporting surface may be adjusted to the level with or raised slightly above or below the surfaces of the tables or devicesl with which it is used, so that the made up forms may be slid from the t-able onto the truck and transferred to l5 the molding or stereotyping machines, or may be vslid from the truck onto a table or other support without lifting the forms and without lifting or tilting the truck, thereby avoiding all danger of scrambling the type.

My invention is an improvement upon the structure shown in Patent 1,074,7 53, October 7, 1913 having for its object the provision of improved mechanism for cushioning the adjustable table top, that enters into the construction, from sudden drop.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a table or truck as it is preferably constructed in accordance with my invention, the table top being shown at one level; Fig. 2 is a view generally similar to Fig. 1 with portions broken away and with the table top shown adjusted to another level; Fig. 3 is a sectional view from beneath on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a sectional view from above on the same line 3 3 of Fig. 1, with a part of the equipment re-` moved; and Fig. 5 is a sectional View on line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

The truck body is preferably rectangular. in shape and is'composed of four legs 1 suitably connected near their lower ends by the bars 2 and at or near their upper ends by the strips 3, the whole forming a rigid structure which is mounted on four trailing caster wheels 4. The truck top 5 is of slightly greater length and width than the truck frame, and smooth and flat on top so as to form a solid and even support especially suitable for set up type or type forms. This top 5 carries vertical rods 6 telescopically received in the upper ends of legs 1 and bottoming at their lower ends in said legs to define a lower limiting level for the top. Depending from the under side of the top are two pairs of threaded bolts 7 one lifting the forms.

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' bolt being adjacent each post 1 and each pair carrying a metaly bar 8, the latter being adjustably secured on the bolts by the nuts 9, two being above and two below each bar.y

Mounted in bearings 10 in the side strips 3 of the truckare the shafts 10, one adjacent each end of the truck. VEach shaft passes transversely acrossthe truck, under the bars 8, and each carries two eccentrics 11 on which the bars rest and by which they are supported. `Each shaftl 1()` therefore supports one end of the truck top when the latter is elevated above its'lowermost position. The eccentrics 11 are keyed to the shafts 10 and bear at their peripheries against the underside .of the bars 8, and are so adjusted and located with relation to the other parts, that thel top 5 is normally supported by the rods 6. Each shaft is provided with an arm 12, one of which projects upwardly t and the other downwardly, and these two arms 12 are connected at their free ends by the connecting rod 13 so that when either shaft is turned the other will be turned also Vand lthus turn the entire series of eccentries 11 in unison. Each shaft 10 is provided with an arm 14, each of which is connected by a link 15 with an actuatinglever 16. The two levers 16 are pivoted upon stub shafts 16 carried by the strips 3, and project inopposite directions and terminate adjacent the two ends of the truck so as to be within convenient reach of the operator.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by pushing down on either lever 16, allthe eccentrics will be turned in a direction to elevate the truck top 5, and be carried onto or slightly past their dead centers, so that the top will be sustainedv in its elevated lposition after the actuated lever-16` has beenv released. The parts may be restored to their normal positions by simply pulling upon the free end of either lever. In the use of the truck in the printing art, the top 5 is preferably set slightly below thelevel of the make up table so that the type forms on the latter may be slid onto the truck top without In transferring the forms back to the table or other device, the top 5 should be elevated to bring it slightly abovev the surface onto which the type or formis to be transferred so that'it may be slid without lifting it.

l To cushion the top against a sudden drop and consequent shockV to the type forms thereon, I have connected the spring 17 to the arms 18 that are ixed upon the shafts l0. The ends of the spring` desirably receive hooks 19 that are received in holes formed throught-he arms 18` und radiftlly aligned with the centers of the sha-its l() whereby the tensioning of the spring 17 muy be adjusted. The movements of the eccentrcs in a direction to` lower the table or truck top will be opposed by the spring 17A which simply operates to cushion and not to prevent the descent of seid table or truck top7 the spring exerting turning` efforts upon the shafts in L direction to accomplish this result. The advantage in a1 spring which is thus coupled with both shatteresides in the fact that the spring absorbs the lost motion occurring in the bearings of the shafts and ensures the similar disposition of the eccentrics with respect to the bers 8 whereby the table or truck top4 is not apt to y be tilted in consequence of the Wearing of the bearings und other parts.

Having thus described niy invention, I cla-iin:

A truck 'for transferring forms of set type, comprising e, freine, e vertically adjustable top, two bolts only depending* from each side of said top, two bers, each of which connects only one pair of seid bolts, euch oit seid bers being` adjustable on its related bolts toward and away from the under fece of the top, four rotatable eccentrics mounted: en Athe freine, twoo which engage with one of the bars at spaced points on the latter, and the remaining tivo of which engage with the other of seid bars at spaced points thereon, end ineens for rotating` seid eecentrics eollectively to elevate the top.

In testimony whereof, hereunto subscribe my neme.

HARRY RGWLEY. 

